As for Dale, it's not quite clear to me what you want to do (and neither
with which compiler... sometimes it does make a difference :).

But it sounds as if looking at preprocessor directives like #define might
help you further.

ge

At 22:18 12/03/2001 +0000, Konstantinos Bibis wrote:
>Hello,
>i'm using a 16F877 PIC.
>I've written a small program in C.
>It is divided in 8 states, and each has it's own delay. I'm using delay_ms()
>to specify the delay.
>I wanted to define lets say a=100, b=359, c=7890, so in the program i can
>write delay_ms(a), delay_ms(b),delay_ms(c) etc, instead of writing tha
>actual number in seconds. I tried defining: long int a = 100(didint work),
>and later saw in the manual that delay_ms() is expecting a number in
>milliseconds.
>
>Is there a simple way to get aroound it ?

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